Archive for July, 2008
Tools of the Trade (Part 2-Source control)
Source Control
Bug Tracking Software
Dedicated Build Environment
Testing
Documentation
Modern Hardware
Source Control
When you are out driving on a gravel road and no one else is around, you can drive down the center of the road, honk your horn to the time of the rock and roll, you can weave from side-to-side to avoid pot-holes. Sure it is dangerous, especially [...]
Tools of the Trade
Before we get into some of the intangibles that define a great development team, we need to discuss some of the tools that build a foundation for a team. Without these tools and procedures in place, then the team will be spinning wheels, wasting time and generally unproductive.
This may be a strange discussion as I [...]
What makes a good development team?
Yes, it is a good question. It is something that I’ve been thinking about a lot over the last couple months. I’ve been a part of many different software teams over the years and while each team has their own strengths and weaknesses there hasn’t been one team that excelled in every area. That is [...]
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Well I guess that it is time for me to get into the world of the 21st century. Blogging seems to be the great step forward in communication. Oh wait, that is so 2001. The great step forward is twitter and poking. It seems strange that to communicate effectively we need to give little witty [...]
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